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Pete Townshend/The Who: A group of parts from Pete Townshend's smashed Gibson guitars,
comprising: a neck, stamped serial 303159 (1974-75), no fingerboard; another similar, stamped serial 162553, (1970-75); and a third, with fingerboard/frets and machineheads, headstock marked Les Paul Junior, indistinct inked serial, possibly 63012, possibly 1963; and an SG Special body, re-finished in 'gold' sunburst, contoured, double cutaway, four controls and one three-way selector, small laminated scratchplate, with 'Guru' sticker, together with a statement of provenance
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The statement is from Christopher Eccleshall, musical instrument maker, dated 24th Oct '04, confirming that 'These assorted guitar parts are the remains of some of the guitars I rebuilt for Mr. Pete Townshend, of ''The Who'' pop group, during the course of the 1970's...'. According to Ecceleshall, the body is from a 1962 SG Special and the unmarked necks from a Les Custom and a Les Paul Standard.
The SG Special is perhaps the single model of guitar that is most associated with Pete. In the period 1968-71 Townshend usually used models from 1966-1970 but did sometimes use pre-1966 examples, featuring the small scratchplate, especially in 1971 when examples of the favoured model became difficult to find.
Literature: www.thewho.net
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